This review examines the implementation of the FY2007 to FY2010 Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) of FY2007 for the Kyrgyz Republic and the CAS Progress Report (CASPR) of FY2010, as well as the FY2012-FY2013 Interim Strategy Note (ISN) of FY2011, and assesses the CAS and ISN Completion Report (CR) of FY2013.
... See More + It covers the joint program of International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), International Development Association (IDA), International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA). The CAS objectives were organized under following four pillars: (1) promoting economic management consistent with strong and sustained pro-poor growth; (2) improving governance, effective public administration and reducing corruption; (3) building sustainable human and social capital; and (4) environmental sustainability and natural resources management. The ISN continued to focus on the same objectives but dropped increasing efficiency of the energy sector under pillar one; improving fiscal sustainability of pension system under pillar three; and improving reforestation activities under pillar four. Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) rates the overall outcome of World Bank Group (WBG) assistance to the Kyrgyz Republic as moderately satisfactory concurring with the CAS and ISN CR rating.
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This Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) marks the Bank Group's return to a standard assistance framework for the Kyrgyz Republic. Owing to uncertainties in the country that followed the political turmoil and violence of April-June 2010, Bank Group activities in FY11 were guided by a Joint Economic Assessment (JEA) and during FY12-13 by an Interim Strategy Note (ISN).
... See More + The former concentrated mainly on the country's emergency post-conflict needs for budget support, humanitarian aid, and infrastructure repair and rehabilitation. The latter, recognizing that corruption, nepotism, and the misuse of public assets had been fundamental, systemic causes of the mid-2010 crisis, focused on three themes: governance; economic adjustment; and social stabilization, especially in the south of the country. The ISN served as a bridge between the JEA's post-crisis recovery strategy and this full CPS.
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This Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) marks the Bank Group's return to a standard assistance framework for the Kyrgyz Republic. Owing to uncertainties in the country that followed the political turmoil and violence of April-June 2010, Bank Group activities in FY11 were guided by a Joint Economic Assessment (JEA) and during FY12-13 by an Interim Strategy Note (ISN).
... See More + The former concentrated mainly on the country's emergency post-conflict needs for budget support, humanitarian aid, and infrastructure repair and rehabilitation. The latter, recognizing that corruption, nepotism, and the misuse of public assets had been fundamental, systemic causes of the mid-2010 crisis, focused on three themes: governance; economic adjustment; and social stabilization, especially in the south of the country. The ISN served as a bridge between the JEA's post-crisis recovery strategy and this full CPS.
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